And they continue to demonstrate, unanimously, the innocence of Alfred Dreyfus. Knowledge is obviously not fixed,” Knobel said.īut as far as the Dreyfus affair was concerned, “historians and researchers have been exploring this vast field of study for decades. History is, of course, sometimes revised, but “through study, through the discovery of new archives, new witnesses. But history is not a weather vane that moves according to mere ideology. “Proclaiming the possible guilt of Alfred Dreyfus is not an accident – it’s part of a revisionist strategy.” Zemmour, he said, “claims to like history. “The far right has become less inhibited about the past, less defensive about the accusations of treason, dishonesty, division and collaboration levelled against it,” Knobel wrote in La Revue des Deux Mondes. More recently, said historian Marc Knobel, who advises the government on anti-racism and antisemitism, ultra-nationalists have made concerted attempts to rehabilitate far-right figures such as Marshal Pétain and Charles Maurras. Other far-right writers have argued the Dreyfus affair was “orchestrated” by “a secret and occult power” and “seriously weakened France” in the run-up to the first world war by undermining “national identity and pride”. The officer’s exoneration has long been viewed as an affront to national pride by France’s far right, and historians say Zemmour – whose parents were Jewish Algerians with French citizenship – is far from the first ultra-nationalist to dispute his innocence.Īn army colonel was cashiered in 1994 for publishing an article suggesting Dreyfus was guilty, prompting a lawyer for Jean-Marie Le Pen, the former far-right leader, to claim the captain’s exoneration had been “contrary to all known jurisprudence”.
Macron also suggested after his inauguration of the museum, which contains more than 500 exhibits and was co-financed by Pierre Bergé, the late partner of fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent, and anti-racism campaigners, that the army could consider posthumously promoting Dreyfus to the rank of general.
“We will never know” whether the allegations against him were lies, he said on another, adding that his innocence was “not obvious”.
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“Lots of people were ready to clear Dreyfus, but this affair is murky,” Zemmour, 63, told one TV show late last year. Zemmour has claimed France’s collaborationist wartime leader, Philippe Pétain, saved the lives of French Jews, rather than assisting their deportation to Nazi death camps, and has repeatedly said the truth about Dreyfus was unclear. The comments were widely interpreted as targeting Éric Zemmour, the far-right, anti-immigrant TV pundit and polemicist who, despite not having declared his candidacy, is predicted by some polls to reach the second round of April’s presidential election. Alfred Dreyfus in his room on Devil’s Island in 1898.
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